Artifacts recovered during Benin City palace excavations. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA—According to a statement released by Antiquity, an international team of researchers is investigati ...

Neanderthals may have fashioned ocher tools for drawing and marking surfaces, according to a Phys.org report. Francesco d’Errico of the University of Bordeaux and his colleagues analyzed the ...

Ruzairy Arbi of Malaysia’s National Heritage Department said that the ship was discovered during an excavation conducted by his department and the Melaka Museum Authority. Initial study suggests that ...

It had been previously thought that the Poverty Point earthworks in northeastern Louisiana were inhabited some 3,500 years ...

Some of the graves are estimated to date to the tenth century a.d. A cemetery was established at the site in the twelfth ...

BBC News reports that an intaglio that may have been set as a signet ring, Roman pottery, military items, jewelry, and a ...

Dabbs of Southern Illinois University and Anna Stevens of Monash University reviewed the archaeological and bioarchaeological ...

BBC News reports that more than 100 projectiles were recovered during an investigation of an unstudied area of Scotland’s Culloden Battlefield. Fought on April 16, 1746, the Battle of Culloden marked ...

According to a report in The Anchorage Daily News, the storm known as Typhoon Halong swallowed up as much as 60 feet of land in some areas of Western Alaska’s coastline earlier this month. The ...

According to an IFL Science report, traces of opium have been detected in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase held in Yale University’s Peabody Museum. A team of researchers led by Andrew J. Koh of ...

According to an ABC News Australia report, a new study of a cut mark in the bone of a giant kangaroo recovered from southwestern Australia’s Mammoth Cave suggests that the cut was made after the bone ...

EKathimerini reports that a woman handed over a fragment of an Ionic column capital to the University of Münster for ...